Burning Secret is set in an Austrian sanatorium in the 1920's. A lonely twelve-year-old boy is befriended and becomes infatuated by a suave and mysterious baron who heartlessly brushes him aside to turn his seductive attentions to the boy's mother. Stefan Zweig, the author of Beware of Pity and Confusion provides the reader, in this newly available translation, with a study of childhood on the brink of adolescence and a boy's uncontrollable jealousy and feelings of betrayal.
- ISBN10 1306946263
- ISBN13 9781306946261
- Publish Date 1 January 2008 (first published 1 July 1989)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 1 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pushkin Press
- Format eBook
- Language English